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APPAREL CORSET. APPLICATION *FILED AUG. l0, |916.

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DANIEL Kors, NEW YORK, N. Y.

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To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

Owing to the lack of sufficient flesh to ll out the frame of the body, thin women have prominent hip bones and very often at the sides of the body there is a marked depression or cavity between the hip bone and the waist line. Ordinarily the corset, as well as other garments worn by such persons, iit more or less closely in these depressions at the sides over the hip bones, resulting in an irregular 'or unsymmetrical figure.

Now the object of my invention is to overcome this difficulty by providing a corset so constructed that a portion of each body half of which the garment is made, fits over or bridges this depression in the body of the wearer, and the garment made in accordance `with this invention will be hereinafter more Iparticularly described.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of an apparel corset in which my present invention is illustrated.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of one of the corset body halves.

Fig. 3 is a partial cross section illustrating the manner in which the garment at the sides thereof bridges the depression in the side of the wearer between the hip bone and the waist line, and Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic plan illustrating the form of thegore insert before the parts thereof are connected.

In carrying out this invention, the corset garment made 'in accordance therewith comprises, as is usual, the corset body halves indicated at 10; in each of these asis also customary, front steels 11 having hooks 12 are provided for securing the partsof the garment together along the front edges thereof, and at the' rear, the edge of each corset body half is provided with eyelets 13,A

so that these edges may be connected by suitable laces 14.

As shown in the drawing, and particularly illustrated in Fig. 2, this garment 'is provided with suitable stays 15 and 16 placed at appreciable distances from the longitudinal side line thereof, and in other places may be stayed in any suitable manner.

Between the stays 15 and 16, portions of 4 Specification of Letters Patent.

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.opposite edges adjacent the stay members 15 "and 16, and at its upper edge is preferably concave in outline, the concave outline of this lower side gore member corresponding generally with the lower convex edge of the upper side gore memberl? but being of a different curvature as indicated in Fig. 4. These edges are made to overlap, the upper edge of the lower member, preferably overlapping the lower vedge of the upper mem ber along which they are suitably secured by lines of sewing or otherwise, to form a curved reinforcingstrip, as indicated at 19. This construction, constricting the garment immediately above the waist line and leaving the same free below the waist line to fit over the hipfbone of the wearer, causes a portion of the side gore members to extend across any depression there may be in the body of the wearer between the hip bone and theV forced at or Yapproximately at the waist line l by a suitably curved reinforcing strip for accomplishing the same purpose, without departing from the nature and spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, spaced stay members, and means between the spaced stay members whereby a portion of the corset body half is caused to extend across a depression in the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom` at said depression.

2. In an apparel corset and, in each corset body half thereof, gore members placed at the side of the garment and connected together adjacent the waist line so as to cause a. portion of these gore members to extend across a depression in the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom at said depression.

3. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, a gore section placed in the upper side portion of the corset body half and having a convex lower edge, and a gore section placed in the lower side portion upper edge, the lower edge oit' the upper gore section being cut at a dierent curvature than the upper edge of the lower gore seco'f the corset body half and having a concave DANIEL KOPS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

